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That's what they did. If you're a science journalist and you can't tell a science paper like this is bullshit in in less than 15 minutes you should be fired.
by thrown_22 4y ago
That's what they did.
If you're a science journalist and you can't tell a science paper like this is bullshit in in less than 15 minutes you should be fired.
Of course you never will be because the point of news isn't to inform but to get you to watch adds.
- sriram_malhar 4y agoThen the scientists should spend their time naming and shaming other articles that those very journalists and papers have written, not contribute more bilge that others have to factcheck. This is not equivalent to ethical white hacking. We need more people like Ben Goldacre ("Bad Science").
- dnissley 4y agoBad Science was published in 2008. Whatever strategy it advocated has clearly failed to gain traction, as the problem is even worse than when it was published. Might be time to be open to some other, more bombastic, strategies. You seem to be saying the ends did not justify the means in this case -- I'm not so sure of that. We're living in a world where some of the most educated people among us put signs in their front yard that say "in this house we believe... science is real". Yikes!